The connection machine
Towards a new architecture for symbolic processing
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This paper presents a connectionist model that is widely used to solve NP-problems: Networks of Evolutionary Processors (NEP). A NEP is a set of processors connected by a graph, each processor only deals with symbolic information using rules, that is, symbols in a processor evolve according some rules. Communication through the graph is based on a filter set that permits (or not) symbols to go from one processor to another. This two steps: evolution and communication, makes NEPs able to solve NP-problems. This paper also proposes an UML architecture to implement NEPs. This work is actually under development and will be implemented in a distributed way, maybe using Java Agent Development Enviroment - JADE, in order to obtain similar results to theoretical ones: solution of NP-problems in linear time. Proposed UML architecture is based on the general behaviour of NEPs.